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Burma's building is shaped like a royal catamaran barge, Hawaii's like a volcano, the Ivory Coast's like elephant tusks. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi has a pavilion-because, the Expo guidebook notes, it "hopes to gain new friends in the world by taking part." Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange, in charge of overall planning, claims that he likes the clashing effects. The only building that really angers him, he says, is a traditional seven-story pagoda erected by Japan's Furukawa conglomerate...
...When Expo visitors tire of the exhibits, they will be able to retreat to a 64-acre Japanese garden filled with twisted pines, bamboos, cherry trees, ponds, bridges and teahouses. At 210 restaurants, geared to dispense 235,000 meals per day, they can sample anything from Algerian cous-cous to Siberian snow grouse. Entertainment will range from the Bolshoi Opera and the New York Philharmonic to a three-mile roller coaster called the daidarasaurus. Offering a different sort of show, radical Japanese students plan demonstrations to show their opposition both to the Establishment responsible for the fair and the expected...
Government and industry have spent $2 billion on Expo, much of it on facilities to transport and house visitors. Even so, the crowds may be more than Expo can handle. Already all hotel rooms within a two-hour radius of Osaka are booked, and families are being asked to take in visitors. The worst problems may come on a new highway built to move 25,000 cars a day but facing an estimated influx of 35,000. Police are warning Expo-bound motorists to pack two meals, drinking water and a portable toilet before they...
...gentle Senri Hills just outside Osaka, under a pall of dust visible for miles away, helmeted workmen are bustling to put the finishing touches on what looks like a giant's toy box. Here, three weeks hence, Japan's Expo '70 will begin a six-month run. It is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia, but amid its architectural anarchy the occasional pagoda or the batwing sail of a Chinese junk seems oddly out of place?and time. From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape...
...Berlin Opera's six month appear ance in Osaka during Expo has been sold out for a year. Music lessons are all the rage, and at one Tokyo music school four-year-olds learn to play Bach on miniature pianos and violins. At the Tokyo Culture Hall, children flock to the orchestra pit at intermission time to ogle their heroes ? cellists and bas soon players...